William H.T. Walker

William Henry Talbot Walker (26 November 1816-22 July 1864) was a Major-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
William H.T. Walker was born in Augusta, Georgia in 1816, the son of senator Freeman Walker. He graduated from West Point in 1836, 46th in a class of 59 cadets, and he served in the US Army in Florida during the United States government's war with the Seminoles. During the Mexican-American War, Walker fought in the August 1847 Battle of Contreras and Battle of Churubusco, and he was wounded in the back at the Battle of Molino del Rey, leading to him being promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel. When the American Civil War broke out, he joined the Confederate States Army, serving as a Brigadier-General of the Georgia militia from 1861 to 1863 in his home state. In the summer of 1863, he served as a divisional commander of the Army of the West under Joseph E. Johnston, fighting at Vicksburg, in the Department of Mississippi and Eastern Louisiana, and in the reserve corps of the Army of Tennessee, fighting at Chickamauga in late 1863. In December 1863, his division joined William J. Hardee's corps, and Walker was shot from his horse by a Union picket at the Battle of Atlanta. Walker died from his wounds.